on the Palouse since he left Idaho; his last Palouse game as Vandal head two years earlier was also a win over the Cougars, 28–13. As OSU head coach, Andros was 8–3 against Washington State and split the first ten games with Washington while headed by former Oklahoma teammate Jim Owens; Oregon State was beaten by the Huskies in Seattle in 1975, Don James' first season at UW and Andros' last in coaching. He was also against his former team, beating the Idaho Vandals by two in Boise in 1965 and by seven in Corvallis in 1966. 1967 Andros is best known for his incredible 1967 season in which his team, dubbed the "Giant Killers", went Led by junior quarterback Steve Preece, the Beavers beat #2 Purdue, tied the new #2 UCLA, and then beat #1 USC. But because Oregon State lost to Washington and tied UCLA, USC won the conference title by a half game and earned the berth to the Rose Bowl, where they defeated the Big Ten's Indiana Hoosiers and won the national title. Oregon State finished with a #7 ranking in the final AP Poll. In 1968, the Beavers were ranked sixth in the pre-season and finished fifteenth after a campaign. There was no bowl game for the Beavers in either year, as both the Pac-8 and Big Ten forbade their teams from postseason participation outside of the Rose Bowl until the 1975 season. Andros expressed an interest in the open position at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater in December and several weeks later, rejected an offer from the University of Pittsburgh, but improved his situation in Corvallis. Although it wasn't apparent at the time, Andros' tenure at Oregon State crested with the 1968 season. Following two six-win seasons in 1969 and 1970, his teams would only win a total of 13 games in the next five years, the start of 28 straight losing seasons. Later life and family Following an eighth straight loss to open the 1975 season, Andros announced his resignation, effective at the end of the season. Days after the final game, he was named athletic director to succeed the retiring Jim Barratt. Andros retired as AD in the spring of 1985, and continued to serve as a special assistant within the Beaver Athletic Scholarship Fund until health problems forced him to remain at his Corvallis home. He spent nearly four decades with